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Bolsonaro's rule is 'worse threat than coronavirus,' say Brazilians as nation passes 500,000 deaths https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/19/americas/brazil-covid-deaths-intl-cmd/index.html excerpt: Bolsonaro has repeatedly downplayed the gravity of the pandemic, calling Covid-19 a "little flu." In addition, since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global pandemic, he has participated in at least 84 mass gatherings, according to a survey by the Brazilian newspaper O Globo... ...A study published in Lancet Journal by Hallal and his team at the beginning of the year estimated that three of every four deaths could have been avoided if Brazil followed basic pandemic protocols. Four of every five deaths could have been prevented if the government had fought the disease as well as the average country, Hallal's team estimated. excerpt: At this stage, the long-term impacts for the millions infected are also impossible to predict, but a new study offers a grim picture of the future: 23% of people who had Covid-19 in the US developed one type of chronic cardiac, respiratory, neurological or psychiatric diseases. ______ You could argue that the psychiatric diseases were pre-existing